Basic Information

Basic Information about the Library

Total number of volumes: 105 000

Annual acquisitions: 2 000

Types of documents: monographs, statistical yearbooks, dictionaries, lecture notes, textbooks, cartographic materials, periodicals, university qualification works, electronic sources.

Journals taken during a common year: 182 titles

Thematic profile of the collection: physical geography, geoecology, cartography, geoinformatics, demography and geodemography, social geography, regional geography of the Czech Republic and of foreign countries, didactics of geography, environment.

Library SW: Alma (Ex libris)
– approx. 45 500 records in the database

Information apparatus: UKAŽ (OPAC+Discovery Primo), author and subject card catalogue of monographs.

Services: lending, ILS, IILS, reference, consultation, additional, exchange or sale of Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geographica journal, access to electronic databases, on-line reservations, prolongation in SW Alma.

Electronic discipline specific databases: Web of Science, GeoRef, Geobase, EZB (Electronic Journals Library).

Technical equipment: PC for readers, copying (1 CZK/A4), scanner, WiFi network, the possibility of connecting notebook

Transport connection: tram No. 6, 18 and 24 from underground station Karlovo náměstí, line B, (Albertov stop)

Parking: in front of the building

Accessibility: barrier-free – lift to the ^2nd floor